The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-12-21
4 SENSATIONl
Opinion of . Fashionable Woman OF tn
World.

Opinion of Fashionable Woman OF tho
World.
"Do YOU expect to win in your dress re-
form movement" was asked Of Mrs. Annie
Jenness-Miller, 10 E. 18th st., New York,
editor of Dress.
II hope top
"Why do you object to the present
style?"
ut is ungraceful, deforming and injuri-
lido ladies' generally support the reformw
ayes, very generally. My correspond
ence is very heavy. Next to Mrs. Cleve-
lands mine is said to be the largest daily
mail of any woman's in the United States,
and from not only every State in the Union
"Is the magazine, Dress, succeeding q,
"Very handsomely, indeed. Dress, has
been published less than year, and am
gratifed with reports from all over the
world of the acceptance by ladies in the
very highest rank, ct the reform which
Dress advocates"
| Mrs. Miller is comely woman in appear
ance, and is very enthusiastic in her dress
reform agitation. AS the New York Graphic
says: "She herself is young and attractive,
with figure SO harmoniously developed as
to suggest strength, power and beauty"
The reform which she is urging with so
much eloquence and grace seems to be the
| coming one. Mrs. Jenness-Miller has the
advantage Of high social position, being of
the same family of the late Wendell Phil
| lips, and the poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes.
'sit is in the fashionable world, of course,
where all the styles are determined, and
where the change mast begin," she says.
Chow do you endure so much work and
keep so wells'
IT dress myself according to my own
ideas, and furthermore, give myself the
II ,,,l two ,nrf WV faCrsco
was nearly exhausted from my work Of
lecturing, writing, ETC."
sIndeed, you do not look like it now!'
UNog am not now. I am now per-
fectly well woman and intend to remain So
| You see T understand the laws Of life too
well to be, or remain i'll, but strange as it
NAV seem for one to say who is opposed to
| myself tired or feeling i'll l fly to the one
single remedy which do endorse, and that
is Warmers safe cure, which gives new en-
ergy and vitality to all my powers. 1t is in
deed what sometimes call my stand by
| have many opportunities to recommend it,
and embrace them gladly, because know
| that it is thoroughly reliable, and for women
! especially effective. Indeed, often find N.Y.
self recommending it to my friends as
warmly as I do my magazine, or indeed my
improved garments, and this would not do
did not personally know of its virtues"
Mrs. Miller insists that all women can and
must be beautiful, and will be so it they
follow her style Of dress and self treatment.
evil you not state, briefly, in justwhat
your reform consists!"
"Oh, with pleasure! I propose a jersey
fitting garment to be worn next to the body,
making of woman a vision of loneliness!
| II. "Over this l put cotton or linen gar
ment, of one piece, without bands or bind
ing covering the entire body also.
III. 'sIn place of the petticoats, I propose
one complete body covering garment called
| sleglettes.'
| ". 1--WE abandon the corset entirely as
totally unfit for use, in it's common form,
and we substitute therefor a supple sup
porting waist, and then we make the OUT
side gown as beautiful as artistic skill and
common sense can design"
| Mrs. Miller's words of counsel, which
every woman should heed, will undoubted-
~ give to the women Of America some new
ideas upon subject SO very near to each OF
| them,